With just a few hours to go before the Hyderabad municipal elections, the first since Telangana achieved statehood, its ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi is confident of a quantum jump: from zero to a 100 seats in the 150-member house.

Hyderabad saw 4 per cent drop in housing sales in 2013 to 16,500 units but volumes are expected to pick up from year-end on hopes that uncertainties will fade away with the decision to form Telangana, said property consultant Knight Frank.

The Congress top brass has summoned Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who has raised a banner of revolt over the Centre's plans to create Telangana, and the party's rebellious Seemandhra MPs to the capital in an attempt to mollify them and get them on board the state bifurcation bill. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said emphat...

The Group of Minister (GoM) on Telangana will meet in the first week of February to decide on Centre's next course of action after Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy sought extension of the deadline for discussing and returning the statehood Bill.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi or TRS, which has in recent years spearheaded the campaign for a separate Telangana state, has written a tough letter to the Union Home Ministry with its views on how India's 29th state should be planned, saying the Andhra Pradesh government's "gross injustice to Telangana" needs to be reversed.

Coming out strongly in support of united Andhra again, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy praised late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for keeping the state united in the face of separate statehood agitations in the past.

Tension prevailed in the High Court premises in Hyderabad after two groups of advocates, one in favour of united Andhra Pradesh and the other pro-Telangana, had a scuffle over separate statehood issue.

Amid the adjournments and angry exchanges over Telangana statehood and Pakistan's attack on Indian soldiers, the nation's parliamentarians seem to be missing the big picture in the ongoing monsoon session that began on August 5.